Power device



W. E. STOUT EOWER DEVICE Oct. 10, 1939.

Filed March 22, 1939 wiuim 'ELSi'ouf;

Patented Oct. 10, 1939 UNITEQ STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel and effective power device primarily for use on airplanes and submarines, and especially to provide a power device which will eliminate the i hazard of gasoline motors in airplanes and submarines and substitute for them an electromechanical power plant. It is also within the contemplation of my invention to utilize my power device for obtaining increased power in connection with other machinery or devices other than airplanes and submarines.

I attain these and other objects of my invention by the apparatus illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a somewhat diagrammatic top plan view of the device;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view, partly in side elevation and partly in section of my power multiplying lever mechanism.

0 Like numerals designate like parts in each of the several views.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, I provide an electric motor I, electrically connected with a suitable battery 2. The drive shaft Ia of 55 motor I carries a pinion 3 meshing with the end gear 4 of the spring cylinder 6. Spring cylinder 6 in turn drives the bevel gear l3 meshing with the gear M on shaft 15, which shaft in turn carries a bevel gear [6 meshing with bevel gear ll on a shaft IS.

The shaft l8 carries a series of eccentrics or cams 19, each of which engages a roller carried by a vertically extending rod 21. Shaft 2| is mounted in a suitable vertical guide 22, as

55 shown in Fig. 3. Rod 2| is operatively connected by a pin or other suitable member 23 with a lever 24.

Each of the several levers 24 are pivotally mounted at 25 on a pivot support 26, which support is preferably a fixed support, but may be a flexible support if desired, or found more advantageous. The end 21 of each of the several levers 5 24 successively enter the coresponding successive slots 28 of the slotted roller 29, said roller being mounted on a suitable shaft 30, as shown in Fig. 3.

As there are a series of levers 24 successively 10 operating to engage the roller at the slots 28, a continuous rotation of the roller will be produced due to the successive action of levers successively thrown into operation engaging the roller. The rotation of the roller 29 also rotates its power 15 shaft 30 which may drive the propeller on airplanes or submarines.

I may, if desired, provide end guides for the outer ends of each of the levers 24. The said guides may be fixed if the support 26 is a fixed support; or the guides may be movable if the supports 26 are flexible supports, to cause the operating end 21 to be successively inserted in and withdrawn from the slots 28 of roller 29, if such construction is found advantageous. 25

What I claim is:

In a power device, the combination of a driven shaft, eccentrics mounted on said shaft, rods driven by said eccentrics, guides for said rods, levers operatively connected to said rods, a roller so having a series of slots to permit the operatin end of the aforesaid levers to engage in said slots, said series of slots being staggered to permit of successive actuation of the roller by the aforesaid levers, and a power transmitting shaft on which said roller is mounted.

WILLIAM E. STOUT. 

